by Liam Viney, The University of Queensland Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see – Arthur Schopenhauer Love & Mercy (2015), currently in cinemas, is a non-fictional recreation of two important and contrasting periods in the life of the Beach Continue Reading
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To vocal infinity and beyond! Brock Baker serves up 24 Pixar voices in 5 fun-filled minutes
There is an art to inspired mimicry. It’s not enough to sound like the character you’re impersonating, you must embody their mannerisms and personality too. Effectively, you have to become that character. It’s clearly not a lesson Brock Baker needs to learn. A talented impressionist, who bring a host Continue Reading
Everyone knows She’s Funny That Way (Poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT From renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, “She’s Funny That Way” is a screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production. When established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots) in a new play to star Continue Reading
Movie review: Last Cab to Darwin
A sense of belonging is an intrinsic part of the human experience. Not everyone wants to admit it of course with many people, for a variety of reasons, doing their best to keep the rest of humanity at bay by fair means and foul. One such person, Rex (Michael Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Muppets get their superhero apocalyptic vibe on thanks to JoopaDoops
As a life long Muppets fan, I am most definitely of the opinion that there is very little on this planet that can’t be improved by their presence. Among these many and varied things, are superhero and apocalyptic road movies, two themes that a very talented artist called Justin Continue Reading
Movie review: Hallå hallå
Disa (Maria Sid) is one very disappointed woman. Disappointed by life, by the way a resolute playing by the rules – husband TICK! Kids TICK! Job TICK! Compliant acquiescing to everything expected of her TICK! – seems to be have yielded her nothing but dashed hopes and dreams. Though Continue Reading
Blood red sky: Edvard Munch’s “Scream” comes to life in this brilliant short animated film
SNAPSHOT I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my Continue Reading
Norman Reedus fights for breath in Robert Kirkman’s Air (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Air follows two caretakers of a facility specifically set-up to deal with the fact Earth atmosphere is all but destroyed. They’re humanity’s last hope as they release cryogenically frozen personnel from the underground bunker to test out what they believe to be the last habitable place on the Continue Reading
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Oh yes it is, it really, really is!
If you’re anything like me, and you may or may not regret wondering if you are, then it’s probably never have occurred to you to mash up Max Max Fury Road, the latest critically and commercially successful entry in the venerable apocalyptic franchise, and 1963’s road trip comedies to Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Mercy
In the best of all possible worlds, biopics should be the most personal and affecting of film genres. After all, they tell the story, either whole or in part, of some extraordinary person’s life – their highs and lows, triumphs and defeats, an exemplar of humanity writ large for us to Continue Reading